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Paperback book, Michael Chabon, 659 pp. (Last page is misprinted as p. 639. Now that's gotta be collectible.)Pulitzer Prize Winner. (Was the last page number printed wrongly, as another deliberate design "flaw"?
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The only reason I know this is because I just read this book.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It's one of the best books I've ever read. It's pretty long, but the chapters are decently short, so you should be able fit in some of it anytime you have a little time to spare.
[the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-Adventures-Kavalier-Clay/dp/0312282990) is one of my all time favorites. one of the main characters realizes he's gay later in the book. I always thought it was a very honest and realistic portrayal, and a very thoughtful addition to an already great book.
A few recommendations that come to mind:
Amazon: Kavalier & Clay
This was truly one of my favorite books of all time. I was disappointed by Chabon's other work, it just didn't compare.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.
To steal a description from Amazon: It's 1939 and Brooklynite Sammy Klayman dreams of making it big in the nascent world of comic books. Joseph Kavalier has never seen a comic book, but he is an accomplished artist versed in the "autoliberation" techniques of his hero, Harry Houdini. He effects a great (and surreal) escape from the Nazis, arrives in New York, and joins forces with Sammy. They rapidly create the Escapist, the first of many superheroes emblematic of their temperaments and predicaments, and attain phenomenal success. But Joe, tormented by guilt and grief for his lost family, abruptly joins the navy, abandoning Sammy, their work, and his lover, the marvelous artist and free spirit Rosa, who, unbeknownst to him, is carrying his child.
The description doesn't do it justice; it's a fantastic book that just feels cinematic. Lots of pre-WW2 Mad Men-esque office scenes mixed with absurdist magical realism.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is one of my favorite novels ever and so is Beloved by Toni Morrison. They both have some metaphysical aspects to them and are awesome novels.
Dark Star - Alan Furst
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The God Engines - John Scalzi
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Both are Pulitzer Prize winners, guy-ish and accessible literary fiction.
Also, James Elroy's L.A. trilogy, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. An omg his autobiography My Dark Places.
My husband recommends anything by Jim Harrison.
EDIT: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I'm assuming that, if you like Chabon, you've read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. If you haven't, start it right the hell now. It's always my immediate recommendation for contemporary fiction for people who read a lot of classics.
Everyone here should read Kavalier and Clay, it's one of the best books I've ever read and it's set during the 30's/40's and magicians and Houdini and shit. JUST FUCKING READ IT.
Might be a bit of a stretch, but I'd recommend The Amazing Adeventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.